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With his family fortune dwindling and Penrith Manor and estate falling into disrepair, Sir Phillip Penrith signs over the deeds to Penrith Scar lead mine to his respected manager and illegitimate half-brother Tor Hardy. Emma Watts works at Penrith Manor and is the family's breadwinner following her father's crippling mine accident. Emma's head is turned when Tor saves her virtues from local rogue Ike Hanson, and their unexpected romance begins.

Stranded in India after being dismissed without a reference, governess Beatrice Layton exchanges her freedom for passage home to England, taking a position with the only family that will hire her. But Bea hasn’t reckoned for just how dreadful her new employers will be. Stuck with them at sea in increasingly desperate circumstances, she finds an unlikely champion in the injured ex-soldier traveling aboard their ship.

Lord Martin Langdon has been deeply wounded by love in the past, so he takes pride in his scandalous reputation where the art of seduction is a most rewarding—and emotionally painless—pastime. When he sets sail for the Isle of Wight to race his champion yacht during Cowes Week, he learns of a particularly beautiful woman who is "impossible to flirt with," and grows determined to prove that not even the prim and proper Evelyn Wheaton can resist his charms.

Annabelle Lawson knew nothing about the handsome and charismatic stranger she met on the train—only that he would make an ideal model for the budding young artist—and that she desired him more than she ever believed possible. She is soon lured into a passionate and romantic summer affair, but after she is seduced, she learns that she'd also been betrayed.

Kurzentschlossen reißt Felicity Sims vor Weihnachten vom elterlichen Landsitz aus. Sie hofft, in London endlich die Liebe zu finden. Doch unterwegs gerät sie in einen Schneesturm und muss aus der verunglückten Kutsche gerettet werden. Alexander hat andere Sorgen, als kurz vor dem Christfest eine verwöhnte Baronstochter in seinem Haus zu beherbergen. Aber je länger Felicitys Aufenthalt bei ihm und seiner Familie währt, desto mehr fühlt er sich gegen jede Vernunft zu ihr hingezogen.

Escocia, principios del siglo XVIII. Daviana, hija del laird Williams McEwen, es de apariencia recatada y muy reservada. Cualquier otra mujer en su lugar sería feliz teniendo el derecho de elegir esposo, pero esa no es precisamente la libertad que anhela y se niega a que su voz siga siendo acallada. Miles Allan es un guerrero bravucón y temido al que apodan Dragón. Nadie se atrevió a ver más allá de su imponente aspecto, lo que siempre le ayudó a sobrevivir a su vergüenza de ser… diferente.

Wealthy heiress Rosalie Ambermere doesn't know why Gideon Reed sits scowling in her sitting room. Or why she finds him so appealing. She'd envisioned her heart falling to a serene gentleman, not to this unpolished, brooding man. And yet she finds Mr. Reed absurdly attractive. Surely her craving for his touch is due to the strange powder she recently inherited from her rakehell cousin.

On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael “Micha” Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and opium to numb the pain. When a sudden illness strikes, all seems lost. But hope finds Micha in the shape of the Reverend Thomas Mandeville. Haunted by grief of his own, Thomas cannot bear to ignore another man’s plight. He brings the ailing Micha home to heal in his parish at Nettlefield.

Adair Thorne has just watched his gaming-hell dream disappear into a blaze of fire and ash, and he’s certain that his competitors, the Killorans, are behind it. His fury and passion burn even hotter when he meets Cleopatra Killoran, a tart-mouthed vixen who mocks him at every turn. If she were anyone else but the enemy, she’d ignite a desire in him that would be impossible to control. No one can make Cleopatra do anything. That said, she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her siblings—even if that means being sponsored by their rivals for a season in order to land a noble husband.

Exiled for 20 years, Lucien never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. He's also inherited his family's enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast. He doesn't expect it to turn up angry. Magician Stephen Day has good reason to hate Crane's family. Unfortunately, it's his job to deal with supernatural threats. Besides, the earl is unlike any aristocrat he's ever met, with the tattoos, the attitude...and the way Crane seems determined to get him into bed.

Hazel Hughes has spent her life believing she is a Medium - someone who can talk to ghosts. But as of yet, that skill has remained frustratingly elusive. She is also suffering from a reoccurring childhood dream of someone who looks almost exactly like Hazel, but this dream version of herself is slowly going mad. Sam MacInnes is a talented surgeon who runs in the highest social circles thanks to his family's position and history. When Sam hires Hazel to assist him with his medical practice, he is immediately drawn to her intelligence, wit, and beauty.

Elfreda Marsden has finally made a major discovery—an ancient amulet proving the Viking army camped on her family’s estate. Too bad her nemesis is back from London, freshly exiled after a scandal and ready to wreak havoc on her life. Georgie Redmayne is everything Elfreda isn’t—charming, popular, carefree, distractingly attractive, and bored to death by the countryside. When the two collide (literally), the amulet is lost, and with it, Elfreda’s big chance to lead a proper excavation.

Eran solo unos niños cuando Bruce McCain la humilló delante de todo su clan y la rechazó como prometida. Ahora, después de muchos años, su hermana gemela sería la que tendría que ocupar su lugar casándose con él. Hannah, creció odiándolo, guardando ese resentimiento muy adentro, y no consentiría que la dulce Sophie se atara a un monstruo. Estaba decidida a hacer lo que fuera para impedirlo, aunque le costara sacrificar su propia libertad.

Clara Hartwright trabaja como dama de compañía, y por ese motivo, nadie se fija en ella. Y eso le conviene, pues tiene un pasado tormentoso que ocultar y en los poco convencionales planes que maneja para su futuro, lo mejor es seguir siendo invisible. Pero cuando invitan a su nueva empleadora a pasar las vacaciones en una remota abadía costera... dejará de serlo, al menos para un caballero.

Rowley Knight, Duke of Knighton, is too busy being a duke to bother with such nonsense as love. With three heirs, he is in no hurry whatsoever to succumb to the lures of the leg-shackles. He is content managing his siblings and estates, and avoiding society whenever possible. If he can only find someone to manage his young sister, life can go back to its proper order.

With his older brother's betrothal announced, Lord Michael Cynster is freed of all familial expectations. But the allure of his previous hedonistic pursuits has paled. Then he learns of the mission his brother and his fiancée have been assisting with and volunteers to help by hunting down a hoard of gunpowder now stashed somewhere in London.

Oxford, 1879. A beautiful bluestocking is about to teach a duke a lesson.... Brilliant but destitute Annabelle Archer is one of the first female students at Oxford University. In return for her scholarship, she must recruit influential men to champion the rising women's suffrage movement. Her first target is Sebastian Devereux: cold, calculating and the most powerful duke in England.

Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a complex and impactful novel by Thomas Hardy. The novel follows the life of Tess, the eldest child of a family who believes they have a small claim to royalty because of their family name. When misfortune hits the family, Tess takes it upon herself to seek out a wealthier relative and ask for money, but instead is taken into the service of a libertine, who takes advantage of her situation and youth.

Lady Isobel Duskwood finds herself swimming in a sea of indebtedness after her father's tragic passing. Vowing to protect her family's estates, she looks for a match who can save her family's good name. But her father's debts are held by none other than Lord Brighton, the Duke of Norbury. A well-known scoundrel, Lord Brighton is widely thought to be unrefined and an unsuitable match for the prim and proper Isobel. Shocked by a scandalous offer that would cancel her debts, Isobel seeks other means of satisfying her family's obligations.

One of Jane Austen's most complex and mature works, Mansfield Park shows the writer at the top of her form, tackling the manners and customs of early 19th-century society with wit and irony that still resonate with readers two centuries after the book's initial publication. Flo Gibson's compelling narration gives perfect voice to the trials and tribulations of Fanny Price, sent at a young age to live with her rich relations.